Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938

Moonlight Sonata (Pall Mall) has its soul in Parnassus, its feet in Grub
Street. A trite British treatment of cinema's tritest theme, it makes
the wobbly point that music hath charms to shoo the city slicker out of
the country girl's heart. But what lofts it to the skies for two
memorable reels is the piano-playing of 77-year-old Ignace Jan
Paderewski, most notable pianist of his time, in cinema a tired old man
in a tacky dress suit, a mismanaged bow tie.